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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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" Bush/s Prize''' Cart, which is one of the best I have seen, has a bcKly five feet 

 six inches long and four feet wide. AVlieels four feet six inches high and four inches 

 wide. The felloes two inches thick inside and one and a quarter inches outside. The 

 body sits close to the axle, and is just as Ioav as it can be to tilt. The shafts are attached 

 to the body by the bar pivot on which the body turns. It has a shelving, or rack, 

 coinposed of light boards on spreading knees or brackets ; two on each side and end. 

 On the^e brackets there are iron hooks that catch on the box inside and hold it firm. 

 The price of these carts in England is 850 for two and a half inch wheels, and C'^55 for 

 four inch wheels. All wheels lor the land ought to be four niches wide, as they do not 

 sink like naiTow ones. Wide tires and felloes need not be so thick as narrow ones. 



A Mr. Robertson, from Scotland, exhibits a very neat one-horse cart with a sliding 

 axle, by which the weight on the horse's back is regulated in going up or down hill. 



The axle is moved back or for- 

 ward by the screw behind. — 

 Several carts are exhibited so 

 low that the shafts require to 

 be bent to bring the body lev- 

 el ; in other cases the shafts are 

 straight, but attached, as in 

 the foregoing cut, by bent iron 

 stays that eflect the same ob- 

 ject as the bent shafts. "We 

 find by experience that lifiht- 

 ncss in the cart, as in all other 

 implements, is a valuable prop- 

 erty, and therefore the best 

 quality of timber should be 

 used in their construction. — 

 Broad wheels, low bodies, sim- 

 ple and convenient tilting ap- 

 paratus, and a nice adjustment 

 of the center of gravity, are the 

 points of importance. 



The application of manures 

 in a liquid state is now prac- 

 tised by the best English and 

 Scotch agriculturists, and carts 

 for the purpose attract consid- 

 erable attention. Fig. 2 I'ep- 

 resents one called the Cylinder 

 Cart, which appears to be an 

 excellent contrivance. It con- 

 sists of a wooden or iron bar- 

 rel revolving upon its axle. 

 One side of the barrel consists 

 of a perforated board, which is 

 kept uppermost when not at 

 work, and to set it to work it 

 is only necessary to turn the 

 barrel round. Thus valves and delivery pipes are altogether unnecessary ; and however 

 hilly the land, or however empty the barrel may be, it will always adjust itself by its 

 own weight, and deliver its contents at a uniform rate. As a natural consequence cf 



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